{"id":574008951,"date":"2021-03-17T12:27:00","date_gmt":"2021-03-17T17:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.winnipegfreepress.com\/our-communities\/metro\/2021\/03\/17\/new-book-explores-pandemic-mothering"},"modified":"2021-03-17T12:38:00","modified_gmt":"2021-03-17T17:38:00","slug":"new-book-explores-pandemic-mothering","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.winnipegfreepress.com\/our-communities\/metro\/2021\/03\/17\/new-book-explores-pandemic-mothering","title":{"rendered":"New book explores pandemic mothering"},"content":{"rendered":"

Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, an indispensible group of frontline workers has quietly continued to provide care that often goes unnoticed.
A new book called Mothers, Mothering And COVID-19: Dispatches from a Pandemic shares the experiences of mothers from around the world, including Indigenous women.
Fiona Green, a University of Winnipeg professor in the department of women’s and gender studies, co-edited the book with professor Andrea O’Reilly of York University.
Their 45-chapter compilation is divided into three sections — wage labour, carework and maternal health — that incorporate scholarly writing and other creative contributions from 70 authors and artists.
“The book seeks to address the disconnection between what is happening in homes across the world and what is being reported in the media,” Green said.
“We ask why motherwork, even during a pandemic, when it is so crucial, remains so devalued and invisible. Most urgently, we want to explore how mothers are managing and what can be done to better support them in this pandemic.
“We wish to detail the realities of self-isolation, physical distancing, as well as stay-at-home directives and their effect on families, mothers and children.”
It’s crucial to publish the experiences of mothers within the first year of the pandemic, Green said, since it documents some ways that COVID-19 has drastically changed life for mothers and their families.
“The often raw, passionate and moving reflections reveal how the unprecedented changes have included the need to respond to family dynamics that are under unparalleled stress and anxiety,” Green said.
“Along with scholarly research, these works point to the ability of mothers to recalibrate their life, relationships and responsibilities in ways that adapt to a rapidly evolving new normal. Moreover, the collection explores how mothers are coping with their own physical, mental and emotional health, as well as that of other family members during 2020.”
Throughout the pandemic, mothers have largely lacked acknowledgement for the essential work they do in their homes.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":295331171,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_price":"","_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_header":"","_tribe_default_ticket_provider":"","_tribe_ticket_capacity":"0","_ticket_start_date":"","_ticket_end_date":"","_tribe_ticket_show_description":"","_tribe_ticket_show_not_going":false,"_tribe_ticket_use_global_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_global_stock_level":"","_global_stock_mode":"","_global_stock_cap":"","_tribe_rsvp_for_event":"","_tribe_ticket_going_count":"","_tribe_ticket_not_going_count":"","_tribe_tickets_list":"[]","_tribe_ticket_has_attendee_info_fields":false,"_classifai_error":"","_classifai_text_to_speech_error":"","apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_cover_media_provider":"image","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_cover_video_id":0,"apple_news_cover_video_url":"","apple_news_cover_embedwebvideo_url":"","apple_news_is_hidden":"","apple_news_is_paid":"","apple_news_is_preview":"","apple_news_is_sponsored":"","apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":[],"apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,12],"tags":[],"education-subject":[],"media-literacy-topic":[],"post_topic":[],"content_type":[24],"class_list":["post-574008951","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-metro"],"acf":{"short_title":"","seo_title":"","deck":"Mothers are under-valued front-line workers","story_tag":"","byline":"Jennifer McFee \/ Special to Canstar","updates":null},"apple_news_notices":[],"parsely":{"version":"1.1.0","canonical_url":"https:\/\/winnipegfreepress.com\/our-communities\/metro\/2021\/03\/17\/new-book-explores-pandemic-mothering","smart_links":{"inbound":0,"outbound":0},"traffic_boost_suggestions_count":0,"meta":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"New book explores pandemic mothering","url":"http:\/\/www.winnipegfreepress.com\/our-communities\/metro\/2021\/03\/17\/new-book-explores-pandemic-mothering","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"http:\/\/www.winnipegfreepress.com\/our-communities\/metro\/2021\/03\/17\/new-book-explores-pandemic-mothering"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/www.winnipegfreepress.com\/our-communities\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2022\/04\/e-JM-motherbook-green-march17.jpg?w=150&h=150&crop=1","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https:\/\/www.winnipegfreepress.com\/our-communities\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2022\/04\/e-JM-motherbook-green-march17.jpg"},"articleSection":"News","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"feedloaderapi"}],"creator":["feedloaderapi"],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Our Communities","logo":""},"keywords":[],"dateCreated":"2021-03-17T17:27:00Z","datePublished":"2021-03-17T17:27:00Z","dateModified":"2021-03-17T17:38:00Z"},"rendered":"